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  1. FragrantFlatulence

    They’re golden: Fictional band fromK-Pop Demon Hunters tops the charts

    My advice: pick 2-3 other earworms to have ready after you watch the movie or listen to the album. Otherwise you are going to be humming along (including in your dreams) with no end.
  2. FragrantFlatulence

    Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

    Kagi had an AMA in June that addressed this issue and also discussed some of their viewpoints on the business of standing up a web index and why they aren’t planning on making a full web index (cost). They do index some sites as part of their “small web” initiative. Anyway, I found the AMA very...
  3. FragrantFlatulence

    Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

    Kagi Ultimate user since early 2024 and no regrets. I know not everyone likes AI, but I really like Kagi's approach to AI in search. It's there when you want it, and stays out of the way when you don't. Their "Ki" (research assistant) is top notch. It gathers information from the web so much...
  4. FragrantFlatulence

    Dear readers: Let us know what you’d like to see more of on Ars

    More homelab, automation, networking, self hosted, servers, etc content. Tutorials/deep dives, major releases and the like.
  5. FragrantFlatulence

    OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provoke

    When are the mugs with the moon shark logo going to be available in the merch shop? Take-my-money.jpg
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    The Reddit protests are winding down—so what’s next?

    Only a drop in the bucket, but I deleted all posts and comments from my 6-7 year old account, followed by deleting the account altogether last weekend. I then proceeded to block all reddit domains in pfSense, joining the likes of twitter and facebook. Doesn't matter what happens at the end of...
  7. FragrantFlatulence

    Starlink speeds in US dropped from 105Mbps to 53Mbps in the past year

    If this isn't proof that the broadband infrastructure in the US is bad, I don't know what is. No one in their right mind would choose Satellite based communications if viable wired communications existed at their address.
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    All the best Cyber Monday 2021 deals we can find so far

    Hyper X Cloud 2 - All time low on amazon ($60): https://www.amazon.com/HyperX-Cloud-Gam ... r=8-2&th=1
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    Mini-PC review: The Ryzen 5 Pro 2500U-powered Minisforum UM250

    What about as a router, running e.g. pfSense?
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    How desperate are you for GPUs, CPUs, consoles? Newegg tests with new lottery

    I don't know how much I believe their ETAs anymore. I have had the ETA on my order of a motherboard move back 1 week at a time for over 2 months now. They say that ETA information is from manufacturers/distributors, but it seems a lot more like educated guessing or hopeful thinking to me. I...
  11. FragrantFlatulence

    Subscription drive, day 4: A pitch from “Comcast’s least favorite journalist”

    Thanks for your work Jon! Your content is top reason for my sub.
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    New York hasn’t followed through on order to kick Charter out of state

    Build out in my town stopped pretty much immediately after NY PSC ordered Charter out. I've been calling them every 3 months for 15 months now and get the same message -- "service not available, show as building to your area within 12 months." I fully expect nothing to happen until this issue...
  13. FragrantFlatulence

    PEAR PHP site breach lets hackers slip malware into official download

    Looks like the hack likely happened in December: 1/5 What we know: the tainted go-pear.phar file was reported to us on 1/18 by the Paranoids FIRE Team. The last release of this file was done 12/20, so the taint occurred after that. The taint was verified by us on 1/19...
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    Healthcare industry spends $30B on marketing—most of it goes to doctors

    If you are interested in looking at what connections your physician might have with big pharma, check out a database maintained by Propublica: https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
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    Dealmaster: All the best Black Friday 2018 deals happening right now

    Looks like they sold out and/or raised the price.
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    New York threatens to revoke Charter’s purchase of Time Warner Cable

    I am not this guy (https://meincmagazine.com/information-tec ... r-verizon/) but don't live too far away. Charter was quite busy in my area last fall... busy enough to update Right-of-Way on my property and string wires down my road which previously had none. Since the initial work, there has...